1990
Version 1.0 - FileMaker Pro appeared for the first time, Macintosh only
and included many of the tools we still use today. For fun we ran up version
1.0 in Classic mode in Mac OS X and it appeared to run fine, in fact better
than version 4.1, where we've experienced some re-draw problems. Amongst
the included facilities were:
- Form and list layouts
- Header, footer, body, sub-summary and trailing grand summary parts
- Most of the tools that are still available on the toolbar
- Define Scripts was in place of ScriptMaker with Define Button immediately
below this in the menu
- Access Privileges including Define Groups, Define Passwords and Overview

With Slide Objects, Tab Order, Sort, Find, Alignment and most drawing
tools all present, it demonstrated how advanced the initial product was.

1980s
This is when our memories and available information gets hazy. The dates
of software releases are fairly clear, with Claris releasing FileMaker
II in 1988, which was preceded by releases of FileMaker 4 and FileMaker
Plus v2.1 from Nashoba (who owned FileMaker before Claris). The original
FileMaker v1.0 was released by Forethought Inc back in April 1985, which
by coincidence was the year some of us were introduced to a peculiar little
square beige box called an Apple Macintosh!